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Photos of the Day - August 20, 2018

Simone Biles competes on the balance beam during day four of the U.S.
Gymnastics Championships 2018 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tim Bradbury/Getty Images

Mumbai from the air. Amazing aerial
images have captured the stark contrast and inequality where rich meets
poor all across the world. The spectacular bird's eye view pictures show
the landscape as an affluent area gives way onto one where people may
be suffering from poverty. The stunning shots show this crossover of the
rich and poor all across South Africa, Kenya, Mexico and even the USA.

Johnny Miller / mediadrumimages

India's Thokchom Seitaram Singh (L)
jumps for the ball against Iran's Jafari Mehrdad (R) during the sepak
takraw men's team regu match during the 2018 Asian Games in Palembang.

MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images

Members of honour guards arrive to
attend a welcome ceremony for Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.

REUTERS/Jason Lee

U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One with first lady Melania Trump and their son Barron in Morristown, USA.

REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Environment Secretary Michael Gove
meets hero police dog Finn, who suffered severe injuries whilst on duty,
at his office in London after giving the Government's backing to a bill
implementing a so-called "Finn's Law" protecting police dogs and
horses.

Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Bangladeshi people packed ferries, as
they rush home to celebrate Eid-al Adha festival with their families in
remote villages, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Muslims around the world will be
celebrated the annual festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of
Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and in
commemoration of Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to
show obedience to God.

A man inspects an animal offered for
sale at an animal market, during preparations for the upcoming Muslim
holiday of Eid al-Adha or Feast of the Sacrifice, in Izmir, Turkey.
Muslims traditionally slaughter an animal in sacrifice, and distribute
part of the meat as aid to the poor.

AP Photo/Emre Tazegul

Muslim pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat,
also known as Jabal al-Rahma (Mount of Mercy), southeast of the Saudi
holy city of Mecca, on Arafat Day which is the climax of the Hajj
pilgrimage. Arafat is the site where Muslims believe the Prophet
Mohammed gave his last sermon about 14 centuries ago after leading his
followers on the pilgrimage.

Malaysian Wildlife Enforcement division
Director Salman Bin Haji Saaban displays seized rhino horns and other
animal parts at the Department of Wildlife and National Parks
headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has made a record seizure of 50
rhino horns worth an estimated 12 million US dollars as they were being
flown to Vietnam, authorities said.

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Dachshund dogs are given treats as they sit on a sofa at a pop-up Dachshund cafe in London, UK.

REUTERS/Simon Dawson

Summer holidaymakers played cricket for
the first time along a Cornwall Sand Bar following a low tide. The four
hour cricket match was watched by 100 onlookers in the Camel Estuary,
Padstow yesterday afternoon. The idyllic sandbar is overlooked by former
Prime Minster David Cameron's £2million holiday home in Trebetherick,
and Gordon Ramsey's £4million house in Rock.

Lucy Price / SWNS.com

Thousands of blazing torches set off
from Bridport's Bucky Doo Square in a procession to West Bay's East
Cliff where music, fireworks and a giant bonfire helped celebrate the
end of Bridport's Carnival week in Dorset, UK. Bridport Carnival first
started in 1911, was abandoned in 1920 then resurrected in 1971 and has
been a popular annual event for locals and visitors since.

South Korean Lee Keum-seom (L), 92, meets with her North Korean son Ri Sung Chol (R), 71, during a separated family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort on the North's southeastern coast. Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans met their Northern relatives for the first time since the peninsula and their families were divided by war nearly seven decades ago. KOREA POOL / KOREA POOL / AFP